2009

Sabtu, 26 Desember 2009

a Zero Waste Christmas or almost...

Well, my most dreaded day of the year is over: Christmas day and all the potential waste and extra consumerism that it entails. We did prett...

Rabu, 23 Desember 2009

Here I come

21.48

all right, here I am... I created this blog site a couple months ago and could not get it started... just did not know where to get it start...

Senin, 14 Desember 2009

More outtakes

18.39

More outtakes from our current issue: this time, the house on Great Barrier Island designed by Paul Clarke of Crosson Clarke Carnachan Archi...

TV3's Sunrise focuses on architecture

17.21

TV3's Sunrise has recently been featuring a series of great homes that have previously been seen in HOME New Zealand. We see it as anoth...

Outtakes

16.34

A lot of people are very interested in the house by Amanda Yates that features on our cover. The beauty of this blog is that it allows us th...

We're back

16.10

We end this long and embarrassing silence (blogging seems so easy to start with then suddenly, it becomes difficult to think of things to sa...

Senin, 19 Oktober 2009

The villa

16.06

A little self-promotion here, but those of you who are interested in architecture may also be interested in the book Villa, which I worked o...

Outtakes

15.44

It's outtakes time again - this time we've selected extra shots of the house designed by Ken Crosson and Carolyn Gundy of Crosson Cl...

Selasa, 06 Oktober 2009

Thursdays at L'affare

17.40

A reminder to all you Wellingtonians that the eminent architect and raconteur Roger Walker will be giving a talk tomorrow night (Thursday Oc...

Our new cover

17.33

Here's our latest cover, shot by Patrick Reynolds at his own house (a villa extension designed by Malcolm Walker) using his daughters, R...

Sabtu, 26 September 2009

More fashion and architecture

19.24

More fashion and architecture collaborations, this time between Miuccia Prada and OMA's Rem Koolhaas, who designed 'The Transformer...

Jumat, 25 September 2009

Fashion and architecture and the great buildings they produce

19.56

Thinking about fashion and architecture, as we do in our latest issue, brought to mind the number of great buildings produced by the melding...

Kamis, 24 September 2009

Shigeru Ban

19.39

In Auckland last week, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban gave a talk to a capacity crowd in the Auckland Town Hall. Ban is best-known for his w...

Senin, 21 September 2009

Fashion and architecture

19.29

You may or may not care, but this week is Fashion Week, so here at ACP headquarters (the home of Fashion Quarterly, and other fashion-obsess...

Selasa, 08 September 2009

Little and often

18.49

I apologise for having broken one of the cardinal rules of blogging: to communicate little and often, ideally in easily digestible daily chu...

Minggu, 16 Agustus 2009

More outtakes

22.35

The house by Stevens Lawson Architects on Hawkes Bay's Te Mata Peak that is one of our Home of the Year finalists looks great from every...

Meet the Architects

16.43

Over the next few weeks we're hosting a series of evenings in Auckland and Wellington offering our readers the chance to come and meet t...

Kamis, 06 Agustus 2009

The outtakes

22.21

One of the hardest parts about laying out house shoots is showing as much of the house as possible without the layouts getting repetitive. T...

Rabu, 05 Agustus 2009

Home of the Year 2009

05.01

It's official - the 2009 Home of the Year is the Waiheke Island house by Mitchell & Stout Architects. Here it is on the cover of our...

Senin, 03 Agustus 2009

Home of the Year on Campbell Live

14.32

TV3's Campbell Live revealed the finalists in the Home of the Year on their show last night, and they all looked terrific. You can view...

Minggu, 02 Agustus 2009

On the waterfront

20.57

The latest Architecture New Zealand magazine contains an editorial and subsequent story by editor John Walsh on Auckland's plans (or sur...

Senin, 20 Juli 2009

Our Home of the Year finalists

21.30

Sorry about the silence, everyone. We've been flat out preparing our 2009 Home of the Year issue. Which brings us to the point of today...